TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Suicide by alcohol overdose
JO  - Journal of clinical forensic medicine
A1  - Michalodimitrakis, M. N.
A1  - La Grange, R.
A1  - Tsatsakis, A. M.
SP  - 91
EP  - 94
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
N2  - Alcohol is the most often detected substance in the body of a person who has committed suicide. It may be used to reduce the last instinctive hestitations to taking one's own life. Suicide is common in cancer patients. People with cancer-related depression often use alcohol as a means of coping but they very rarely use it in order to kill themselves through acute intoxication. However, a case of a cancer patient who committed suicide consuming two bottles of spirit was recently investigated and the conclusions are presented. The post-mortem cardiac blood and vitreous humor alcohol level was found to be 9.0 and 6.2 mg/ml respectively.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1353-1131
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1353-1131(97)90080-8
ID  - ref1
ER  -